16-17 October 2013, Strasbourg, FranceCounterfeiting of Medical Products & Similar Crimes: How to Protect Public Health & Combat these Crimes at a Global level?

In line with the Committee of Ministers’ decision to make the Medicrime Convention globally available, the EDQM in close cooperation with Council of Europe’s Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, organised a meeting on the Medicrime Convention on 16 to 17 October 2013.

For the first time, 70 participants from observer states of the Council of Europe and of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission met to promote international cooperation in all regions of the world under the Conventionand explored ways to initiate Medicrime-related twinning between observers and member states of the Convention on the Elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia.